Coal-fired plants are a bad investment for future

TVA's decision to invest in the Gallatin coal-fired power plant is a prime example of the destructive short-term thinking common to our society. The long-term pollution, disease and environmental degradation are discounted in favor of short-term gain in electricity and profits for coal companies.

Better long-term planning would invest their $1 billion in solar power systems that do not require mountains to be blown up in order to fuel them and produce no long-term ill effects.

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Coal-fired plants are a bad investment for future

TVA's decision to invest in the Gallatin coal-fired power plant is a prime example of the destructive short-term thinking common to our society.